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Investor portfolio, from our funding record
Government-owned investor. The EU member states own the EIB. This is the list our funding rule 3 uses: a round every one of whose leads is government-owned is state capital, not a private round.
Recorded in our rows as: EIB; European Investment Bank (round lead).
Counted rounds
2
Led
0
2 as participant
Companies
2
Disclosed round value
$166M
2 of 2 rounds disclosed; whole rounds, not this investor's share
First deal
2020-02-03
Kineis
Latest deal
2024-09-27
D-Orbit
European Investment Bank appears on 2 counted private space funding rounds in our records, into 2 companies: recorded as lead on 0 and as a participant on 2.
The earliest is Kineis on 3 February 2020; the latest is D-Orbit on 27 September 2024.
2 of the 2 rounds disclosed a size, together $166M. That is the size of the rounds European Investment Bank took part in, not the amount European Investment Bank invested: we hold no per-investor allocations and do not estimate them.
The investor most often on the same counted rounds as European Investment Bank is Avantgarde, on 1 round.
5 other recorded transactions naming European Investment Bank are not counted in this portfolio; each is listed separately with the class that keeps it out (debt: 4, state capital: 1).
Private funding rounds into space companies that name European Investment Bank as lead or participant, newest first, each with its source. Round size is the whole round; a blank size was never disclosed and is not estimated.
| Date | Company | Stage | Role | Round size | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D-OrbitRecorded as Series C (second close) | Series C | Participant | $55.8M | Payload (opens the source for this round) | |
| KineisRecorded as Equity round | Other or unlabelled private round | Participant | $111M | SpaceNews (opens the source for this round) |
Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security. Full disclaimer
| Stage | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Series C | 1 |
| Other or unlabelled private round | 1 |
| Sector | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure | 1 |
| Satellite | 1 |
| Year | Rounds |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 |
Investors named on the same counted rounds, by the number of rounds shared.
Showing the 10 most frequent of 16 co-investors. The full list is part of a SpaceNexus Research seat.
Other recorded transactions that name European Investment Bank. Each class below is kept out of every figure on this page by the same rule our quarterly funding editions use; they are listed so nothing is hidden.
| Date | Company | Class | Role | Round size | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLD SpaceRecorded as Venture Debt | Debt financing | Participant | $34.7M | SatNews (opens the source for this round) | |
| OQ TechnologyRecorded as Venture Debt | Debt financing | ParticipantAs recorded: EIB | $29.5M | Payload Space (opens the source for this round) | |
| CailabsRecorded as Equity portion of EIB-led structured round | State capital (government or state-owned funds) | LeadAs recorded: European Investment Bank (round lead) | $23.4M | Cailabs (press release) (opens the source for this round) | |
| CailabsRecorded as EIB financing | Debt financing | Lead | $43.4M | Cailabs (press release) (opens the source for this round) | |
| SateliotRecorded as EIB debt facility | Debt financing | Lead | $32.4M | European Spaceflight (opens the source for this round) |